Built to Scale: How Top Companies Create Breakthrough Growth through Exceptional Advisory Boards

by Marissa Levin

The one strategy that has made the biggest impact on the growth of Marissa Levin’s multi-million-dollar, self-funded, global business is the implementation of an advisory board. After carefully researching the process she used to create a board that took her business to the next level, Levin created SCALE™, a patent-pending method that helps other business owners recruit, implement, and leverage their own business-altering advisory boards.In Built to How Top Companies Create Breakthrough Growth Through Exceptional Advisory Boards, Levin uses her proven SCALE™ framework to guide you step-by-step as you build the advisory board you need to become an exceptional, connected, knowledgeable leader with a successful and profitablebusiness. Whether you’re a start-up or an established $50 million firm, Built to Scale™ will give you the knowledge and tools you need the people you need to take your business from where it is now to where you want it to be while helping you develop exceptional leadership skillsCompensate your advisors (you’ll learn about monetary, non-monetary, and equity-based options along with the legal and financial implications)Associate them into your organization with an effective change management strategy that minimizes disruption and maximizes effectivenessLeverage your advisors for business, process, and infrastructure development as well as for networking and strategic planningEvaluate and evolve the board as your organization growsMarissa Levin is founder and CEO of Information Experts, Inc., a global strategic communications, human capital, and education company that has been on the Inc. 5000 List of America’s Fastest Growing Companies three times since she implanted an advisory board. She also founded and runs Successful Culture, a firm that helps entrepreneurs understand how to generate high growth by creating a workplace culture that attracts top-level talent and customers. A popular media guest because of her insights into small business success, Levin has won countless national and local awards for leadership excellence. Learn more at www.successfulculture.com

Genres: Business

140 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 1, 2012

Reviews

[Kristi Herold · Rating 5 out of 5]

Easy read with some great ideas on building an advisory board!